Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – May 4, 2023; Amazon Web Services brand during day three of Rio Web Summit 2023 in Riocentro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile via Getty Images Rio Internet Summit)
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Amazon Web Services is the cloud computing arm of the U.S. tech giant Launching infrastructure zone in Taiwan The company is seeking to meet “high demand for cloud services” in the Asia-Pacific region by early 2025, the company announced on Wednesday.
Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of infrastructure services at AWS, said that the new AWS region in Taiwan will enable enterprises to take advantage of the cloud and “build with AWS technologies such as computing, storage, databases, analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.”
An AWS Region is the physical location of a data center cluster.
The company said the new region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, adding to AWS’ existing 105 Availability Zones spread across 33 geographic regions around the world. An Availability Zone is an isolated and geographically independent location that hosts one or more data centers with independent power, cooling, and physical security.
It will give developers, startups and corporations, non-profit organizations, and institutions involved in education, entertainment, and financial services “better options when running their applications and serving end users from data centers located in Taiwan,” Ensuring that customers who want to keep their content in Taiwan can do so,” AWS said.
The cloud services provider will also invest billions of dollars in Taiwan over the next 15 years, the statement said.
A month ago, AWS announced that it would invest an additional US$9 billion in Singapore over the next five years to develop its cloud infrastructure and services in the country.
AWS said in March last year that it would Commitment of at least $6 billion by 2037 Following plans to launch a new region in Thailand in October 2022, it has entered a new region in Malaysia Invest US$5 billion over 15 years.
AWS Opened an area in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia December 2021.
Other technology giants such as Microsoft and Google Billions of dollars have also been invested in the Asia-Pacific region.
Google announced last month that it would invest US$2 billion in Malaysia and build its first data center and cloud region in the country.
Microsoft says it will make artificial intelligence and cloud-related investments in several Southeast Asian countries – MalaysiaThailand and Indonesia – as it doubles down on its investments in the region.
According to statistics, in the first quarter of this year, AWS became the leader in the cloud infrastructure services market, accounting for 31% of the market. collaborative research group. Microsoft Azure ranks second after AWS.
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